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Leonarda

Girls' name

Feminine form of Leonardo

Leonarda has been given to 1,019 babies in the U.S. since 1895. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1920, with 34 recorded.

Babies named Leonarda, 2023

1 in 663,000

Leonarda over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Leonarda: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Leonardo

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Leonarda means

Leonarda is a feminine form of Leonardo.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Leonarda is used in Italian.

Another recorded pronunciation is /le.o.ˈnar.da/ for Leonarda.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Leonarda → Leonardo → Leonardo. The family’s meaning is “as strong as a lion”, recorded in Italian with the source elements Leonhart.

Origin, language, and formation

Leonarda is used in English and Polish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Leonardo.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Polish, Leonarda is pronounced /lɛ.ɔˈnar.da/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,019 girls were recorded with the name Leonarda between 1895 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 34 in 1920; its best national rank was #1,296 in 1917.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Leonarda?

Leonarda had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
459,528 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Leonarda sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Leonarda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Leonardas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Leonarda was born before 1932 — so the typical Leonarda is around 93 today.

Median birth year
1932
About 93 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
24.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
4.5%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
327
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 24.6% of all recorded uses (251).

Is Leonarda rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1920 (34)
Years since peak
105
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,296
1917

Spellings of Leonarda

Leonarda is not the most common spelling — Leonora is, with 70.2% against Leonarda's 9.5%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Leonarda is used

Across 1910–2025, Leonarda was most concentrated in New Mexico — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 257,653 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Mexico1 in 100,000
  2. 2New York1 in 100,000
  3. 3Texas1 in 100,000
  4. 4California1 in —
  5. 5Massachusetts1 in —
  6. 6Ohio1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Leonarda has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Leonarda around the world

Where Leonarda ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2008–2008
    #5,545
    in 2008
  • France
    1926–1968
    #1,197
    in 1968
  • South Australia
    1951–1996
    #712
    in 1996

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Leonarda by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,296
1917
Peak year
1920
34 that year
First recorded
1895
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
1,019
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Leonarda

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Leonarda

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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